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#5, RE: An example of modern SEO or a total SEO dissater?
Posted by Kurt on Aug-10-11 at 12:24 PM
In response to message #4
LAST EDITED ON Aug-10-11 AT 12:25 PM (PST)
 

I am the World's Dumbest SEOer!

When I first started www.Shysky.com , it was intended to be a private site, so it really wasn't designed well for SEO.

Then I changed my mind and decided to make it public. Since it uses a few big pagers, I thought I'd test using anchors and snippets.

I pointed a few links at it with the goal of getting it indexed. But after 6 months, it still wasn't indexed. I didn't link to it a lot at first, but did do enough to get it indexed. So, because Google seemed not to like it, and I couldn't figure out what was wrong, I didn't work on it for the past 6 months.

Then, a few days ago it dawned on me to check to see if the pages had "noindex,nofolow" tags. Sure enough, I had added these tags when I planned on having the site as a private/membership site.

The good news is, I removed the noindex tags and about half the pages are now indexed and I didn't add any new links.

GRRRRRRRRR! 6 months wasted and I feel like a real bonehead!